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In 2016, the number of international tourists to the US dropped by more than 2 percent, while tourism trended upward worldwide. There are several explanations for the dip.
South Africa needs to harness its service sector into an innovative and export orientated way to push back poverty, unemployment and inequality.
With elevated wildfire risks forecast across much of the western US this summer, here’s how travelers can track local conditions, stay out of harm’s way and avoid accidentally starting fires.
For the first time research has quantified the global carbon footprint of tourists. It’s big – and getting bigger.
Poorer young people in Varanasi have big ambitions, but no way to reach them – despite the government’s efforts.
Expo 88 helped to create Brisbane’s South Bank Parklands by raising expectations of what the city could be like.
Travelling will never be the same with the advances of communication technology. The recently opened theme park Rabbit Town shows this.
Volunteer tourism is often criticised for focusing on profit and volunteer experience. But improving monitoring and evaluation and putting host communities in charge can make it more sustainable.
Many more people experience World Heritage online than in person. While that further elevates the status of iconic sites like the Sydney Opera House, it has other more complicated consequences too.
If intelligently managed, festivals attract substantial numbers of LGBT tourists to regional and rural destinations, injecting additional income into the local economies.
There’s no evidence Airbnb is worsening housing affordability. Rather it empowers female hosts and promotes small businesses in remote communities.
The blockade of the Kokoda Track by local landowners is a product of the complex political and economic issues currently affecting Papua New Guinea.
Tourism Australia’s Super Bowl commercial is good strategy, reflecting familiar popular signifiers of Australia. Straying outside of these concepts hasn’t proven successful.
A new report will supply some information needed for science based conservation measures in the Red Sea.
Ethiopia must address hotel industry challenges to take advantage of its huge tourism potential.
Technology has changed the way we travel. While social media can be a useful tourism tool, we need more education to ensure ‘selfie tourism’ doesn’t become the norm.
So-called ‘party’ towns like Byron Bay attract huge numbers of visitors for schoolies weeks and New Year’s Eve – but sometimes at high cost to the young people who live there.
The big cities are still magnets for tourists, but often they find the smaller towns offer a more satisfying taste of local life. It’s why rural tourism can be ‘the perfect small town business idea’.
How to make your holiday better for the environment through sustainable tourism.
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management/ Adjunct Associate Professor, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Tourism, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, Massey University
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Professor of Development Studies, Massey University
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Professor of Sustainable Tourism, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University
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Professor of Tourism, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer in Tourism & Events, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Heritage, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Tourism, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Marketing and Tourism, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor, University of Central Florida
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Professor of Tourism, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer in Hospitality & Tourism, University of Surrey
